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Sections: Main page Linux in the news Security Kernel Distributions Development Commerce Announcements Back page All in one big page See also: last week's Development page.	Development tools Breaking the arbitrary boundaries normally imposed on items for this section, Minotaur 0.1 has been announced. It is a generalized extension that allows you to run Python scripts from Tcl, Tcl scripts from Perl, Perl scripts from Python, etc. "Minotaur works by loading the appropriate shared library into another script language's context. So, for example, running Tcl from Python means that the Python main program imports the Minotaur extension, which in turn loads the Tcl libraries - thus Tcl becomes "embedded" into the Python runtime environment (which is similar to embedding Tcl in a normal C program). As involved as that sounds, performance is already surprisingly good, and the capability is turning out to be quite useful. This is an alpha release and should be treated as such. Java Version 0.3.2 of the Java-based game, humanoid, has been released. Perl Guy Kawasaki (formerly of Apple) and Sun's Bill Joy will be keynote speakers at The Perl Conference in August (part of the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. More information, including talk titles, is available at the Perl News for July 7th, 1999. Welcome to CPAST, Comprehensive Perl Arcana Society Tapestry states the new perl history site. The primary resource on the site so far (besides poetry) is the Perl Timeline. Python Updated Python documentation for Python 1.5.2 has been announced and is available at http://www.python.org/doc/. Smalltalk SmallInterfaces brings the idea of interfaces explicitly into Smalltalk. Tcl/tk Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh	July 8, 1999

	Development projects Front Page Front Page for Linux? Wouter Liefting pointed out that a Linux version of Front Page 4.0 appears to be available. Gimp This week's Gimp Kernel Cousin reports on the Gimp Help Browser, which has just been committed to the CVS for inclusion in upcoming Gimp releases, a problem with menu thumbnails and a patch for a new bell-and-whistle: drag and open. Gnome Havoc Pennington's Gnome Summary for June 28 - July 4 is now available. It includes pointers to Gnome buttons from Ville Ptsi, a list of new features in the file manager, a new pager applet called Desk Guide and more. LinuxPower now has out a new Bi-Weekly Report on Gnome. LinuxToday has an audio interview with Miguel de Icaza available. High Availability Version 0.4.1 of Alan Robertson's Heartbeat code is out. It contains code from Volker Wiegand for monitoring and controlling heartbeat via /proc. He mentions that the new code is not yet stable or recommended for any but the brave. MagicPoint An update to magic point 1.05a has been released, containing performance enhancements and some memory leak fixes that caused crashes under Linux. Midgard Several new developments are highlighted in this week's Midgard Weekly Summary and it appears that Midgard 1.1 may make it out later this week. For more information on the Midgard web development platform, check the homepage for Midgard. Zope Here's this week's Zope summary from Amos Latteier. There are plans to make Zope work better with the Python Imaging Library and OpenGL. Martijn Pieters posted a patch to allow customizing tree tag decoration. You can also read a press release posted by Paul Everitt detailing how Digital Creations and UserLand are making Zope and Frontier play nicely together. Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh
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